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- HEALTH-AFRICA: Training Anaesthesiologists to Do, And To Train
CAPE TOWN, Mar 8 (IPS) - The need for a global effort to address the shortage of anaesthesiologists in Africa was highlighted over the past week during the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists -- which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. - HEALTH-AFRICA: Anaesthesiology on Life Support
CAPE TOWN, Mar 7 (IPS) - A discussion about anaesthesiology and anaesthesiologists is something that could bring on drowsiness, even sleep…Until, that is, the talk turns to shortages of anaesthesiologists in Africa and how this can increase surgical mortality. Statistics on this matter are frightening enough to keep anyone awake. - TRADE-AFRICA: Agriculture Talks Stuck on Import Surge Safeguard
GENEVA, Mar 7 (IPS) - The Group of 33 developing countries has denounced the draft text on the special safeguard mechanism in the current Doha Development Round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks as ‘‘extremely inadequate… stringent, restrictive, burdensome (and) ineffective’’. - TRADE-AFRICA: Why Food Import Surges Are an Issue at The WTO
GENEVA, Mar 7 (IPS) - Food import surges have had devastating consequences for the rural poor and local economies in Africa. Such surges have taken place with alarming frequency in the past decade or two. - WOMEN'S DAY-KENYA: Equal Pay in Theory, Not Always in Fact
NAIROBI, Mar 7 (IPS) - On Mar. 8, a century ago, thousands took to the streets of New York in demonstrations aimed at improving life for women. Burning issues of the day included the need for better working conditions -- higher pay, a shorter work day -- and winning the right to vote. - RIGHTS-NIGERIA: The Threat of Death Hangs Over Thousands
LAGOS, Mar 6 (IPS) - Three months after the U.N. General Assembly called on states which practice capital punishment to adopt a moratorium on executions, several thousand Nigerians continue to live in fear of the gallows, with activists accusing the government of inertia -- and even of failing to carry out its past promises to free the aged on death row. - BURKINA FASO: Rights Abuses Perhaps the Cost of Rising Prices
OUAGADOUGOU, Mar 5 (IPS) - Fears have been expressed this week that rights abuses are being committed against people detained in connection with protests against the rising cost of living in Burkina Faso. - DEVELOPMENT-SWAZILAND: To Relocate or Not To Relocate?
MBABANE, Mar 3 (IPS) - Climate change appears to have permanently altered certain areas of east and southern Swaziland, where good harvests have not been achieved for over a decade. Agriculture officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) now question whether these areas can still support communities. - DEVELOPMENT: A Humanitarian Disaster Unfolds in Eastern DRC
KIBUMBA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mar 1 (IPS) - In a mist-shrouded valley between the Mount Nyiragongo volcano and a pair of its dormant cousins looming in Rwanda to the east, nearly 3,000 souls wait in limbo, having fled a conflict that has succeeded in making this lush corner in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) nothing less than hell on earth for its people. - DEVELOPMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: Farmers Can Plan - But Not Indefinitely
CAPE TOWN, Feb 29 (IPS) - Millions of dollars worth of agricultural produce have been lost due to the electricity crisis in South Africa, which has seen rolling power cuts -- referred to locally as "load shedding" -- across the country over the past few months. Yet industry players who spoke to IPS about the crisis seemed positive about their ability to weather the storm. - TRADE-AFRICA: Make or Break for WTO Doha Round
GENEVA, Feb 29 (IPS) - The World Trade Organisation’s beleaguered Doha Round could either be wrapped up in the next two to three months or be stalled for an indefinite period of time. - TRADE: Proposed Tariff Cuts Will ‘Destroy’ Industrial Development
GENEVA, Feb 29 (IPS) - The Doha Round negotiations on industrial products have once again come under fire at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), with developing countries such as South Africa saying that the proposed tariffs cuts will spell the end of their industrial development. - POLITICS-KENYA: From Suspension of Talks to Fragile Success
NAIROBI, Feb 28 (IPS) - The signing of a power-sharing agreement to end the political crisis in Kenya has elicited a variety of reactions. - DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Full Dams Do Not Translate Into Water Supplies
HARARE, Feb 28 (IPS) - Heavy rains in Zimbabwe and in the catchment areas of its major rivers in December and January have filled most of the country’s dams to capacity. Yet, many urban households do not have water. - POLITICS-KENYA: "It Will Not Be Machetes and Arrows Any More, But Firearms"
NAIROBI, Feb 27 (IPS) - Political analyst Kwamchetsi Makhokha has warned that failure of talks to address Kenya's political crisis could prove explosive. The East African country is trying to resolve a disputed presidential election that has already cost more than 1,000 lives -- and displaced up to 600,000 people.
